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Subaru Forester (2004)
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Price: US $12,500.00

Description:

We use this vehicle on the weekends. It is in very good condition with low miles. The tires are essentially new and top of the line Cooper high speed rated tires. The battery is new and also top of the line. The fluids are changed on schedule. The AC fluids have just been recharged. It is regularly cleaned and we dont smoke. The engine is completely stock. It is the same 2.5 liter, turbo charged boxer engine as in the WRX models. I believe it produces 210hp and 235lbs of torque. All wheel drive, obviously. Fully loaded with black leather interior which is also in excellent condition. Everything works. Two sets of keys with remotes. It is a great car, we just need something bigger for our growing family.
Here is a review from the model year:
By Warren Brown washingtonpost.com June 29, 2003 Looks Aren't Everything
2004 Subaru Forester 2.5 XT
Many of us were happy in 1997 when Subaru of America introduced its Forester wagon. It seemed the perfect antidote to lust for large sport-utility vehicles -- an agreeably modest offering in the midst of motorized bacchanalia.
The Forester represented good wheels. It was large enough to carry a family of five but small enough to escape the stigma of being an SUV.
It came with standard all-wheel drive, a more benign and arguably more useful form of four-wheel drive for urban and suburban motorists.
All-wheel drive automatically transfers power from slipping to gripping wheels. It is engineered to keep you on-road in rain and snow. Traditional four-wheel drive uses locking differentials to simultaneously send drive power to all four wheels. It's designed to take you over rocks and through streams and bush -- and keep you on the go.
Forester owners are mostly urban and suburban. Over the past six years, they've had few complaints about the Forester's reliability or overall quality. But many have demanded more horsepower.
Thus, we have this week's test vehicle, the 2004 Forester 2.5 XT. It is ugly, as is the case with most Subarus. But it performs beautifully. It will knock your socks off -- and strip you of everything else you're wearing, too!
Subaru has installed a turbocharged, 2.5-liter, 210-horsepower engine in the Forester 2.5 XT. That's up from 165 horsepower in the normally aspirated four-cylinder model -- normally aspirated meaning an engine that uses no extra device, such as a turbocharger or supercharger, to take air into its combustion chambers.
You can feel the difference.
There is a certain whoosh to the 2.5 XT. Initially it is both surprising and disconcerting, especially if you've become accustomed to the gentle acceleration of the regular Forester. Drop the 2.5 XT's standard four-speed automatic transmission into drive. Hit the accelerator and, whoosh, you're off to Zoomsville. That's rather odd, considering the Forester's basic, homely personality.
Despite its extra power and improved handling, the 2.5 XT pretty much remains the Forester it has been all along. It is filled with the requisite storage bins and cup holders. There is something inherently parental in its personality. The body remains an ode to all things square and rectangular, with the exception of the redesigned rear hatch, which embraces trapezoidal and triangular geometric themes.
The one indication that the 2.5 XT is different from its other Forester siblings sits atop the hood. It is a functional air scoop, put there to further assist the engine's breathing. It seems totally out of place on and out of character for the Forester -- like something a teenager would stick on his first car with little regard for taste or what looks good.
There isn't much in the 2 .5 XT's interior to counter that ugliness, not even in the tested version with the Premium Package, which includes leather seats. Subaru has yet to divorce itself from its utilitarian passion for interiors beige, black and gray. It needs to discover color and take some chances using it.
Here's hoping that Subaru's executives might one day give to their designers and stylists the same freedom they've now given to their engineers, who are turning out hot-to-trot models such as the Forester 2.5 XT wagon and the very successful Impreza WRX.

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